~ the illustrated garden studio blog

Paintings on recycled vintage postcards. Meow!

Hector & Persephone never expected to find true love in the catnip patch.

Being a Pisces, Murdock was always polite and optimistic.

I love painting on the backs of old postcards. It’s fun working in a cozy 4×6-inch window, with old stamps and handwritten messages peeking through the color.

This week, I’ll be working on art for my Holiday Open Studio.

Just in time for Thanksgiving, the first of the fall garden broccoli matured. Nothing tastes better than tender, steamed broccoli carried straight from the garden to the stove. The Perfect Man drizzled a bit of lemon butter over the top — ahhhh. Heaven! Next week, the first round of cabbage will be ready. And the kale, sweetened by last week’s freeze, is growing faster than ever. Alas, a couple of 80-degree days last week caused the lettuces to bolt. (If at first you don’t succeed… plant, plant again.) And our cauliflower seems to be sulking, all leaves and no tasty center, while its neighboring veggies are happily producing abundant winter fare. Every gardening season has its little mysteries.

Val, another great idea. The cats are wonderful painted over the writings of old postcards. I use my old diaries to paste in recipes, but I always leave some of the dates free, I can lift the recipe and read what happened per example on the 5Th of August 1989. Generally the diaries are full of fantastic photos or artistic drawings and it would be a shame to discard them. It is also fun to see what one has done at a certain time with friends etc. while using a recipe.

Just came across your blog for the first time and felt I had to leave a comment for you. Really loved what I have seen here. What wonderful art with such beautiful colours and depth. I will definately come back from time to time to see your future work. If you would like to visit my site and leave a comment in my guestbook I´d welcome you to do that, as I always enjoy hearing from fellow art enthusiasts. All the best, Anna